Race Quotes

• To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Fire
  • Survival

• If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Silence
  • Race
  • Use

• The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Die

• My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Identity
  • Race
  • Potential

• The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Help
  • Way

• The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Religious
  • Race
  • Animosities

• I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'

  

  Thaddeus Stevens
  • Language
  • Ambition
  • Epitaph

• Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.

  

  T. J. Rodgers
  • Way
  • Running
  • Race

• When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Hair
  • Winning
  • Olympic Games

• Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Loses
  • Hips
  • Hops

• A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Human
  • Race
  • Motto

• There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.

  

  Amy Levy
  • Feelings
  • Race
  • Ebbs

• I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • God
  • Children

• It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Winning
  • Quiet
  • Steady

• Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.

  

  Barbara Katz Rothman
  • Imagine
  • Project
  • Controlling

• When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Sunday

• It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

  

  Joseph P. Kennedy III
  • Name
  • Race
  • Ballot

• She belonged to the great race of human beings who regard life as a series of piracies of all powers.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Life
  • Belonged
  • Piracies

• A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Freedom
  • English
  • Punish

• However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Good
  • Two
  • Track

• The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

  

  Zeno of Elea
  • Science
  • Race
  • Example

• He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and they were dark with fear, for only one race was run as yet and there might be many others.... Then his newborn courage came back to him and he accepted his suffering as the price he must pay for the gift of creation that was his. And suffering, he had discovered, could be the gateway to renewal, than which no more glorious experience can be man's on earth.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Suffering
  • Discovered
  • Supposed

• My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is for black people all over the world. I began to realize that it's not as much about race as we think it is. It's about the rich vs. the poor. I feel as if the different races are pitted against one another so we won't see the bigger (financial disparity) problem.

  

  David Banner
  • Problem
  • Realize
  • Concern

• Normally with any of the races, we go a bit early to get used to the time zone and acclimatize. We'll have a couple of days to see the places. My favorites so far are Montreal and Abu Dhabi. With Abu Dhabi, the facilities are excellent and the weather is always good.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
  • Time
  • Good
  • Couple

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